Kevin is a Managing Director of Elevation Partners, a private equity firm that makes large-scale investments in media, entertainment and consumer related businesses. For 24 years prior to joining Elevation in 2005, Kevin was a Managing Director and the Global Head of the Equity Private Placement Group at Merrill Lynch & Co, where he led a market-leading private equity fund placement business. Kevin serves as an independent director on the board of Merrill Lynch Ventures, LLC, a series of private equity partnerships offered to key Merrill Lynch employees, and on the Advisory Board of Altamar Private Equity, a Spanish private equity fund-of-funds manager. In addition to his “for profit” endeavors Kevin has been active over the years in supporting education related causes both financially and with his time. Currently, he is underwriting the cost of and actively participating in the roll-out of DonorsChoose in New York State, as well as serving on its New York board. DonorsChoose seeks to improve public education by engaging “citizen philanthropists” in an on-line marketplace where teachers describe and individuals can fund teacher-proposed student projects. Kevin is Chairman of the Economics Board of Visitors.